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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn listening to Rachel's opening, it suddenly struck me how damned comforting it is
to listen to someone who knows how to pronounce "nuclear".
Even mundane vestiges of normalcy and intellect are precious in this time of celebrated ignorance.
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In listening to Rachel's opening, it suddenly struck me how damned comforting it is (Original Post)
Atticus
Aug 2019
OP
I agree, but at least we don't have that layer of "yeah, but is this true?" anxiety
Atticus
Aug 2019
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. She is the voice of sanity . . .
Takket
(21,625 posts)2. New-Cue-Lerr (Right?)
Atticus
(15,124 posts)3. Only pronounced that way in Nipple and Button. nt
calimary
(81,466 posts)10. And at george dubya bush's house.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)4. Took the night off, may watch Lawrence.
Watching Colbert from last night and even the appropriate making fun of the blithering idiot traitor causes me stress to watch, his voice makes me fucking ill.
oasis
(49,408 posts)5. Rachel's in depth report on the nuclear incident is scary as hell.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)6. I agree, but at least we don't have that layer of "yeah, but is this true?" anxiety
when we hear it from Rachel.
oasis
(49,408 posts)7. Yes, but in this case, I don't want it to be true.
"I can't handle the truth"
Hekate
(90,793 posts)8. We're recording her, as always. She comes on at 6pm here, so it's not that hard...
...to catch up. I so enjoy her intelligence, her earnestness, her research -- and her big vocabulary, it has to be said. And I will never, ever forget how she was handed the breaking news about the babies in cages, and choked up so bad she had to hand it off and go to commercial break.
BluesRunTheGame
(1,620 posts)9. Newk-you-ler...Newk-you-ler...Newk-you-ler...
Gothmog
(145,558 posts)11. Rachel was great tonight